The protesters are concerned about the level of verification needed under the proposals

The protesters said the new policies were just another way Parliament was criminalising porn and sex, brandishing a banner written 'Consensual Adult Sex Should Not Be Criminalised.'

Another one of the organisers, Pandora Blake, who runs a feminist spanking website, was concerned about the level of verification needed under the proposal.

She said: “Now, I don’t know about you, but I personally would like to retain my rights to discreetly watch porn in the privacy of my own home without there being that database connected to my legal name.”

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In response, a spokesman for the Department for Culture, Media and Sports harshly dismissed concerns, saying people would need to prove their age to watch porn “in the same way that they have to prove their age in the real world, in places like sex shops”.

He added: “There needs to be something in place to stop children from just going online and being able to access porn without age checks in places.”